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Liquid said:
I would totally help put them up, but I got kicked out of WCU for trolling.
You got kicked out of WCU? How are you still posting from Scott?
Duendes said:
.. something tells me that you just read this stuff off of a website.
He actually pulled it off Wikipedia and unless you’re a chemist, chemical engineer, or biologist with extensive knowledge of the chemical effects of l-dopa on the human body you really can’t refute it. When it comes to science, Wiki is typically very accurate. Like accurate enough to source in a senior project if your professor isn’t retarded.
Ephraim said:
So, can she sue over this?
Most likely not. There are usually waivers you sign before taking any sort of vaccine, being completely screwed up or dying are notable things you typically waive the right to sue over.
Although I’d have sued anyway. No matter what you sign, that reaction just wasn’t right.
By taking the GRE you’ll prove her wrong. Without using a Kaplan or other form of study aid you’ll do terribly on any standardized test.
She’s trying to weed out the retarded students, mainly the ones stupid enough to listen to her.
Btw, for GRE prep I highly recommend the following:
I’m going to start combining your posts into giant troll/spam/laim fests. While I’m at it reset postcount to 0?
win?
NuRayZ said:
lol it’s similar to parkinsons so i figured somebody out there with dystonia might be on it. I looked up some folks, and there are some using it for the disease in colorado.
Yeah I hear it cures cancer and E.D. too but that doesn’t mean it does.
Btw I’m intentionally trolling you b/c you think MJ cures everthing
Ephraim said:
Okay, Nathan is out as TF2 CL, but can we still count on him as Historian?
This is what should be discussed at private meetings.
If I were you guys I’d have a backup camera incase he doesn’t show or care.
Stats rebalancing probably should be done. What we have now is the default for the HLXC stats system so there’s method to the madness, just not a method close to what we used to have.
Stats were turned off for Deagle5 and SK3 to encourage people to stay and play. Yes point whoring isn’t something we want to encourage but we’d rather keep those players than empty the server.
Stats are off for juggernaut because it’s basically a +150 guaranteed for one lucky player and many would complain about that being unfair.
It needs the LAN date, having a haloween theme doesn’t mean anything.
Other than that it’s pretty good.
josrocket said:
I could do it eventhough most of what you talked about isnt necessary or seldomly needs to be done. Do i want too? not completly, but i would if i had to
The database for the stats system died last week and has done so several times in the last few months. You might be able to pick up enough SQL to be useful but when the *edited* hits the fan we need people at the top of their game. One wrong command on a damaged database means you have to explain to everyone why their stats or the forums just got erased.
You might be able to pick up SM relatively quickly but compared to Lemm or Liam, you’d be nothing. Hell I can barely hold a candle to either. It’s stupid to push talent we have and know is top notch to the back burner simply because they don’t live on campus. Hell Liam is on the Sourcemod development team, if that’s not a resource the club can use I don’t know what is.
Also, you can’t pick up PHP and CSS in less than a few months. I tried it, failed hard, and moved on. These forums make what I was trying to do look like childsplay.
josrocket said:
but despite that, its points like what you said above we are gonna discuss… we both know there are people on the list of admins that have no business being on there and some of the people on the list have permissions that they dont need or should not have and these need to be revised…
The list of gameserver admins isn’t up for debate as only the CLs can make that determination and their elevated access is required to do their constitutionally allowed job. The alumni have elevated permissions so they can access the private sections and give advice to the more private discussions going on in the club. I hope this isn’t up for debate, if so it makes absolutely no sense from an advisory standpoint. CL have elevated permissions as per their job requires. Execs have highest access and whenever someone is no longer in office they are lowered to the same level as alumni because their input is a valuable resource.
This leaves “root” and “semi-root” admins. There aren’t many.
Semi-root:
AMerrill – club founder
Lemm – requires semi-root to use the new admin management system
Root:
Adam Faulkner – Webmaster and club founder
NoDice – club founder
Nickname – knows everyone in ITS, can get us anything
Raven – required for implementing the new forums skin
MasterP – running the game server, needs access to root-only section for password archiving and licensing
Liam – fixes the really bad breaks
Kaz-Ka – club president
This doesn’t include the people who have access to the webadmin interface for the gameserver or FTP to either server. If you’d like I can detail those as well.
Who exactly were you thinking about revoking?
josrocket said:
you can still do it but it has to be done through an actual student exec. Its only right.
So when I tell you to repair or run a backup query on a database you’re going to know how to do that right? What if I tell you to recode a plugin to change the admin level required to execute a command on the TF2 server, you know how to do that?
Most of what we do I can’t simply tell you to do because you don’t know. It would take months to teach you what I do and years to learn what Adam and Liam do.
I’m still waiting for the SGA rules, btw.
josrocket said:
You guys need to relax nobody is attacking anybody,recent events have made it clear that the current execs are not in control of the website, servers, ect…we have become too dependent on the Alumni and aid of people outside of this school…I speak for the club when i say alumni like adambomb, nickname, and mitch are very important and we dont want you guys to be sore over this…The point is, despite it not being allowed for people who dont go to the school to have any kind of power in the club, we need to tie up loose ends that are a risk to the sites security. There for all people that no longer attend the school should not have the ability to ban accounts, change code on website, delete posts, and they certainly should never have passwords and what not to access main control over the website. Only students should have these powers.
This would result in all old alumni memebers to lose access to various things, but this by no means that the alumni cant make suggestions, contributions, and continue to help. It will always be welcome. We just need the students to hold all positions and power. This also means we need to have students taught how to do the jobs that the alumni currently still do.
It is as simple as this and nothing more quit blowing things out of proportion please.
Who here has the experience to replace us?
Can you code PHP and CSS? No? Then you have no one to replace Adam and Raven.
Are you a monster at database queries? No? Then you have no one to replace Liam.
Can you code SM or have years of experience with gameservers and Windows 2003? No? Then you have no one to replace myself, Nickname, Lemm, or Adam37.
Btw, when you revoke our admins and the database dies in a month you’ll just be screwed. Once you cross this bridge there’s no going back because we won’t come back to save your asses when the forums magically die or a gameserver crashes and won’t turn on.
Josh, is this really about SGA or about your grudge against the alumni? Someone told me you were more involved with this than it appeared and your reply above pretty much confirms that. You need to drop this grudge. You were elected to represent the will and wishes of the alumni so why are you now advocating the exact opposite of what our wishes and desires are? If you can’t fullfill you duties you need to resign from your position and let someone who’s actually willing to represent us take that position.
Btw, there is no risk to site security. The security policies for off campus access are to the letter of what the campus server security director has mandated. What we’re doing has been discussed with him and he’s thinks it’s ok.
Also, I’m still waiting for a link to the SGA rules you guys are talking about.
Yeah but 99% of people aren’t going to install a 3rd party matchmaking client. The majority of people those attract on the PC side are those with pirated copies.
I imagine that once they realize how expensive it is to maintain a free matchmaking server farm and how big a hassle it is to frequently update the game they’ll go back to the old way. Until then I predict massive disappointment with the online aspect of this game for the PC.
I mean hell, even Halo2-Vista has a dedicated server.
ManlyMoose said:
Article 4 (I think) for club formation states that all members need be either a. Full time students, b. Part time student (such as a senior on their final semester) with permission from the director of the SGA. Continue down to the next one for electing officers, it states that club officers must be a member of the club. It does not specifically state that server/forum admin is or is not an office, probably because this was not a problem when the by laws were stated. From the current tracks that the SGA has made recently if we were investigated they would either say it was implied or amend the by laws.
Can you post a link so everyone else can read? If it’s like everything else SGA writes there are loopholes everywhere.
Btw, if you’re worried about SGA caring, think again. SGA and this club have such a long history of not getting along that they don’t even bother us anymore. I wouldn’t worry about SGA, their rules change everytime their officers do and if we catered to the whims of each and every administration I’d have even less hair and Adambomb/Kuros/Bitey would be completely bald.
ManlyMoose said:
Anywho, moving on. Let’s leave this discussion for the meeting shall we?
How about we discuss this now because at the meeting we will be ignored.
Also when you do this we lose the CLs for the CS16 and CSS servers, basically the only things keeping the server occupied right now. As no one on campus cares about them they’d die in less than a month, then again so would the forums and website so I guess it wouldn’t really matter anyway.
Surprisingly, not as many as you’d think. Most of our forums members are either from nearby schools or completely nowhere near WCU. We have a few Canadian members but we’ve shunned them so they typically keep to themselves.
I graduated from WCU last May with a BSEE and 2 minors. Now at NCSU going for either MSEE or MSCN.
Nickname said:
BTW, the servers are property of Residential Living, not SGA or whoever you think they are property of, so we only lose them if Residential Living says so.
Both Residential Living and IT know that alumni are still running the servers. They don’t care because they’d rather we do it than people that have absolutely no business running a $12,000 server in a multi-million dollar datacenter.
I have offered several times to teach anyone how to do anything on the server within the power their position allows. Kaz-ka physically said at the meeting that I’d teach anyone how to do anything. This notion you’ve invented that anyone here is unwilling to teach is a bold-faced lie.
Btw, where did you read that alumni can’t be in leadership positions because I’m pretty sure the majority of greeks and a good number of clubs do this all the time.
And for the record, because I’m sure butt-hurt trolls are behind this, I only banned about 3 accounts. The rest were banned by other admins, one of which you’ll never be able to revoke access to the servers so if that’s the motivation behind this you’d be better off directing that pent up frustration at something a little more constructive.
Also important to note is that the webmaster gave approval before any banning took place.
